Scientists have uncovered what, for some couples, may be an uncomfortable truth: all people of European descent are related.

Sherry Turkle shows up begging for a latte. She's left her wallet in her hotel room. She's exhausted, she says, and could do with a coffee.

Some stroke victims may eventually recover lost hand function thanks to smart new computer system designed to fool the brain.

A self-proclaimed "physics nerd" from Burnside High School is heading to Nasa after winning a scholarship to space camp.

Senior scientists have criticised the "appalling irresponsibility" of researchers in China who have deliberately created new strains of influenza virus in a veterinary laboratory.

It weighs just 80 milligrams, has a pair of wings that flap 120 times a second and has taken 10 years to develop.

NZ authorities are only just waking up to the risks tsunamis pose to our coastlines but they don't know how bad a destructive one could be here, an Australian expert says.

The culture in NZ is, no doubt, a leading element of what has been achieved by Team NZ in bringing this catamaran campaign to its impending pinnacle, Keith Turner.

It is one of the most unusual evolutionary ideas yet proposed: humans are amphibious apes who lost their fur.

Today, we know that lifestyle and environment interact with diet to affect our health, writes Charlotte Martin.

A "troubling" new study has suggested that a third of resource consent holders are breaking environmental promises, with agriculture operations proving the worst offenders.

The temporary hearing loss from an outing at a noisy nightclub may not indicate damage to our ears as traditionally thought, new research shows.

Sweeping views of Auckland's volcanic cones risk being violated by new planning rules, critics say.

Scientists from across the world have come here to examine how to unlock secrets hidden within our offshore tectonic plate boundaries over the next decade.

To geologists perhaps, six years is nothing, writes Brian Rudman. But for those of us on human time, it seems an inordinate amount of time to need to hatch the plan.

Climate change is forecast to make huge tracts of land ripe for grape-growing in New Zealand while threatening vineyards in some of the world's most celebrated wine regions.

Scientist Sir Ray Avery says his latest invention will revolutionise medical care.

Palaeontologists are “p****d off” that the dinosaurs in the upcoming Jurassic Park film will not have feathers.

Tsunami warning sirens that sounded across Auckland in a test-run at the weekend are not favoured by our national emergency agency.

Every time Steve Morris takes his two young daughters to the local beach, signs of tsunami danger surround him.

As one of the world's most tsunami-threatened countries, New Zealand faces the triple menace of distant-source tsunami, regional tsunami and local-source tsunami.

Scientists at the University of Auckland believe they are one step closer to finding life in outer space.

Auckland's universities are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new buildings, transforming not only their campuses but the shape of the city they serve.

US President Barack Obama has proposed an effort to map the brain's activity in unprecedented detail, as a step toward finding better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer's, autism, stroke and traumatic brain injuries.